The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The Meaning of Express

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Want to Save PBS? Make it Pay-Per-View

  – By Ray Nedzel

• Revelations in May

  – By Jim Knable

• Lentil Soup: Van Gogh’s Table

  – By Cathy Nan Quinlan

• Sunset Park: The Next Times Square?

  – By Patrick Gallahue

• The Battle for Borough Hall

  – By Jonas Salganik

• Siberia Bar: Exiled in Times Square

  – By Justin Vogt

• Power Politics: The Protests Continue

  – By Bridget Terry

• Jacking the Hudson River: Welch’s Last Stand

  – By Russell Cobb

• Against the Giuliani Legacy

  – By Williams Cole

Express

• Hot Fun in the Brooklyn Summer

  – By Meghan McDermott

• Opinion: End Toxic Discrimination

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• The Environment: Another Weapon of War?

  – By Phil Berrigan

• Indonesia: Business as Usual

  – By Gregg Salisbury

• Quebec City Diary: Struggling Against a Global Takeover

  – By Carlos Vásquez and Pennelope Lewis

• Opinions: On Gay Marriage

  – By Jason Jones

• Letter: Look Out Kid, It’s Something You Did

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• Archie Bunker, R.I.P.

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Art

• Brute Realism: Leon Golub at the Brooklyn Museum of Art May 13 – August 24, 2001

  – By Daniel Baird

• LEON GOLUB with Chris Martin

• The Margins of William Blake

  – By Phong Bui

• Travelling at the Speed of Night: 65 mph

  – By Valerie Jaffe

ArtSeen

• Richmond Burton

  – By Rachel Youens

• Ryan McGinness

  – By Peter Eleey

• Jacqueline Humphries

  – By Lori Ortiz

• Deep Surface: Reading a New Language in the Kinetic Passages of Jay Milder

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Chariots of the Gauze: Nader Ebrahimi

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Kazumi Tanaka

  – By Peter Eleey

• Joan Snyder

  – By Rachel Youens

• Pitt.stop

  – By Lori Ortiz

• Suzan Batu

  – By Lori Ortiz

• Elizabeth Cohen and Michael Talley

  – By Art Aské

• Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor

  – By Cecily Kahn

Books

• Where Did You Go, Joe DiMaggio?

  – By Patrick Walsh

• Diane di Prima’s New York

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Loving Daughter

  – By Patrick Walsh

• Documenting Revolution: Emile de Antonio

  – By Tamara L. Falicov

• One Man’s Universe

  – By Miriam Greenberg

• Summer Fiction

  – By Sophie Fels

• A Pacifist in the Trenches

  – By Theodore Hamm

• The Brooklyn Rail recommends…

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Music

• Love Camp 7 Vacation Village

  – By David Shirley

Dance

• Hail, Baryshnikov: White Oaks’s Judson Dances at BAM

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• SWARM at WAX: KICK/STANDance

  – By John Merchant

Film

• A lesson for the Masses: Ken Loach’s Bread and Roses

  – By Emily DeVoti

Theater

• Lionel Abel Remembered

  – By Phong Bui

• Dante in Dumbo: GAle GAtes et al. Tales it Down… and Down… and Down

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Nothing is True: Lipstick Traces and The 20th Century

  – By Beth Rosemberg

Fiction

• Another Housing Story

  – By Scot Crawford

• Excerpt from Gowanus Notecard Abduction

  – By Tod Thilleman

Poetry

• Umbrian Odes

  – By David Rigsbee

• Skai's Marriage

  – By Snorri Sturluson

• Poetic Lives I: Harvey Shapiro, in conversation with Galen Williams

• Poetic Lives II: In the Homeless Shelter

  – By Thomas Obrzut

• Poetic lives III: NYC’s Youth Poetry Scene

  – By Jen Weiss